In the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks that killed a rabbi and his wife, New Jersey's Jewish leaders on Monday will hear from a top Israeli official about the violence.

Ambassador Asaf Shariv, consul general of Israel in New York, will visit the Chabad of Central New Jersey on the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University to brief students and rabbis from around the Garden State, said Rabbi Menachem Carlebach.

Shariv, who accompanied Gov. Jon Corzine on his trip to Israel this summer, reached out to the Chabad late Friday and asked to speak, Carlebach said. Among the 180-plus people killed in the India attacks were five Jewish hostages inside a Chabad center established by a Brooklyn rabbi and his wife.

New Jersey leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement were stunned by the death of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife, Rivkah, and honored the victims with a candlelight vigil held Friday.

Monday's meeting with Shariv will start at 11:30 a.m. at the Chabad of Central New Jersey, 170 College Ave., New Brunswick, and is open to the public, Carlebach said. "We're honored to have him," he said.